Funding search · EIN 202624778 · Wilmington, DE
The Adam J Weissman Foundation
A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.
- 94
- grants reported
- $2.0M
- total given
- 2022–2024
- filing years
- $10,000
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
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Funding pattern
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2 grants matching “antoine” · $25,000
- $18,000
Inserm Auvergne Rhone Alpes · 2022
scientific work of Antoine Lutz, director of research at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center
- $7,000
Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · 2022
research program currently led by Antoine Lutz
Top recipients
Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.
- Ploughshares Fund3 grants · $480,000
- Tessellations6 grants · $252,000
- Heifer Project International3 grants · $150,000
- Partners Asia3 grants · $150,000
- Lewis and Clark College2 grants · $100,000
- Agora Partnerships2 grants · $100,000
- Peninsula Bridge Program3 grants · $90,000
- Women Make Movies3 grants · $75,000
- Mind & Life Institute2 grants · $60,000
- Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund3 grants · $42,000
Giving over time
Grant history
All 94 reported grants, largest first.
- $400,000
Ploughshares Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $75,000
Ploughshares Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $50,000
Heifer Project International · Little Rock, AR · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $50,000
Partners Asia · Oakland, CA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $50,000
Tessellations · Cupertino, CA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $50,000
Agora Partnerships · New York, NY · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $50,000
Heifer Project International · Little Rock, AR · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $50,000
Lewis and Clark College · Portland, OR · 2023
Weissman Neurobiology Lab, currently led by Dr. Tamily Weissman
- $50,000
Partners Asia · Oakland, CA · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $50,000
Tessellations · Cupertino, CA · 2023
Next Gen Scholarship Fund
- $50,000
Agora Partnerships · New York, NY · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $50,000
Heifer Project International · Little Rock, AR · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $50,000
Lewis and Clark College · Portland, OR · 2022
Weissman Neurobiology Lab, currently led by Dr. Tamily Weissman
- $50,000
Partners Asia · Oakland, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $50,000
Tessellations · Cupertino, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $50,000
Tessellations · Cupertino, CA · 2022
Scholarship Fund
- $50,000
Tessellations · Cupertino, CA · 2022
Capital Campaign
- $30,000
McE Social Capital · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $30,000
Mind & Life Institute · Charlottesville, VA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $30,000
Peninsula Bridge Program · San Mateo, CA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $30,000
Mind & Life Institute · Charlottesville, VA · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $30,000
Peninsula Bridge Program · San Mateo, CA · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $30,000
Mind and Life Institute · Charlottesville, VA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $30,000
Peninsula Bridge Program · San Mateo, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $25,000
Women Make Movies · New York, NY · 2024
Das Bombe, LLC Fund
- $25,000
Women Make Movies · New York, NY · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $25,000
Women Make Movies · New York, NY · 2022
Das Bombe, LLC
- $20,000
Bodhi Tree Ecodharma Sanctuary · Seattle, WA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $20,000
Impactassets · Bethesda, MD · 2023
1 to 4 GiftVest Fund
- $20,000
The Ojai Foundation · Ojai, CA · 2023
Topa Institute
- $20,000
The Philanthropy Workshop · New York, NY · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $20,000
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc - Doctors Without · Hagerstown, MD · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $20,000
The Ojai Foundation · Ojai, CA · 2022
Topa Institute
- $18,000
Inserm Auvergne Rhone Alpes · 2022
scientific work of Antoine Lutz, director of research at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center
- $16,000
Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund · Redwood City, CA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $16,000
Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund · Kansas City, MO · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $15,000
Human Rights Watch · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Charitable Event
- $15,000
World Affairs Council of Northern California · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $15,000
The Philanthropy Workshop · New York, NY · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $15,000
World Affairs Council of Northern California Glob · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $10,000
Grassroots Ecology · Palo Alto, CA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $10,000
Grassroots Ecology · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $10,000
Human Rights Watch · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Voices for Justice Silicon Valley
- $10,000
The Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund · Springdale, AR · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $10,000
University of Wisconsin Foundation · Milwaukee, WI · 2023
Center for Healthy Mindy
- $10,000
Grassroots Ecology · Palo Alto, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $10,000
McE Social Capital · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $10,000
Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund · Redwood City, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $10,000
The Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund · Springdale, AR · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $10,000
University of Wisconsin Foundation · Milwaukee, WI · 2022
Center for Healthy Minds
- $7,000
Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · 2022
research program currently led by Antoine Lutz
- $5,000
Arkansas Foodbank · Little Rock, AR · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $5,000
Insight Meditation South Bay · Menlo Park, CA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $5,000
Lifemoves · Santa Clara, CA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $5,000
Ploughshares Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Charitable Event
- $5,000
The Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund · Little Rock, AR · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $5,000
Hawaii Community Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2023
Lahaina fire relief
- $5,000
Lifemoves · Santa Clara, CA · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $5,000
Los Altos Community Foundation · Los Altos, CA · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $5,000
Arkansas Foodbank · Little Rock, AR · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $5,000
California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2022
Undergraduate Scholarship Fund
- $5,000
Campaign Legal Center · Washington, DC · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $5,000
Compassion Institute · Half Moon Bay, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $5,000
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center · Seattle, WA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $5,000
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2022
MSFS Scholarship Fund
- $5,000
Human Rights Watch · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $5,000
Lifemoves · Santa Clara, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $5,000
Los Altos Community Foundation · Los Altos, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $5,000
Stanford University Center for Compassion and Altr · Stanford, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $5,000
Zachary and Elizabeth M Fisher Center for Alzheime · New York, NY · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $3,000
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley · San Jose, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $2,500
Technovation · Menlo Park, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $2,000
California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $2,000
Wikimedia Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $2,000
California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2023
Undergraduate Scholarship Fund
- $2,000
Insight Meditation South Bay · Menlo Park, CA · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $2,000
Tessellations · Cupertino, CA · 2023
Tessellations Arborist Association
- $2,000
Insight Meditation South Bay · Menlo Park, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $2,000
Johns Hopkins University - the Wilmer Eye Institut · Baltimore, MD · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $2,000
Spirit Rock Meditation Center · Woodacre, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $1,000
Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Washington, DC · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $1,000
Internet Archive · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $1,000
National Public Radio · Baltimore, MD · 2024
General & Unrestricted
- $1,000
Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Washington, DC · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $1,000
Internet Archive · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $1,000
National Public Radio · Baltimore, MD · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $1,000
Warren J Plaut Charitable Tr · Granby, MA · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $1,000
Wikimedia Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
General & Unrestricted
- $1,000
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2022
ArXiv Program
- $1,000
Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Washington, DC · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $1,000
Internet Archive · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $1,000
National Public Radio · Baltimore, MD · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $1,000
Warren J Plaut Charitable Tr · Northampton, MA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
- $1,000
Wikimedia Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
General & Unrestricted
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